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Note : This paper contains fifty (50) multiple-choice questions, each question carrying
two (2) marks. Attempt all the questions.
1. In a 1817 review of Coleridges Biographia Literaria, Francis Jeffrey coined the term
Lake School of Poets grouping...
(A) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Crabbe
(B) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron
(C) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Hazlitt
(D) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey
2. I am the enemy you killed, my friend/I knew you in this dark...
The above lines are taken from...
(A) The Soldier
(B) Dulce et Decorum Est
(C) To His Dead Body
(D) Strange Meeting
3. Below are two sets of texts one of which has inspired the other. Match the text with its
inspiration :
(i) Coral Island (ii) The Odyssey
(iii) The Mahabharat (iv) Jane Eyre
(v) The Great Indian Novel (vi) Wide Sargasso Sea
(vii) Omeroos (viii) Lord of the Flies
(A) (i) - (v), (ii) - (vii), (iii) - (viii), (iv) - (vi)
(B) (iv) - (vii), (iii) - (vi) (i) - (viii), (ii) - (v)
(C) (iii) - (v), (iv) - (vi), (i) - (vii), (ii) - (viii)
(D) (i) - (viii), (ii) - (vii), (iii) - (v), (iv) - (vi)
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4. His life was gentle and the elements/So mixed in him, that Nature might stand
up/And say to all the world, This was a man !
Who is the speaker, and about whom is this spoken ?
(A) Enobarbus on Antony
(B) Brutus on Caesar
(C) Cleopatra on Antony
(D) Marc Antony on Caesar
5. When my love swears that she is made of truth/I do believe her, though I know
she lies.
The author of these lines is...
(A) Philip Sidney
(B) Edmund Spenser
(C) Christopher Marlowe
(D) William Shakespeare
6. The poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge was notably influenced by...
(A) The Napoleonic Wars
(B) The Glorious Revolution
(C) The French Revolution
(D) Poor Laws
7. Great wits are sure to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
The above lines appear in...
(A) Mac Flecknoe
(B) Absalom and Achitophel
(C) Essay on man
(D) Alexanders Feast
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8. Who among the following developed the term strategic essentialism ?
(A) Edward Said (B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
(C) Homi Bhabha (D) Aijaz Ahmed
9. David Maloufs An Imaginary Life is a retelling of the story of :
(A) Aristotle (B) Juvenal
(C) Ovid (D) Horace
10. Jabberwocky is a character in....
(A) The Importance of Being Earnest
(B) Fra Lippo Lippi
(C) Through the Looking Glass
(D) Goblin Market
11. Which of the following statements is the most accurate regarding Edward Saids thesis
in Orientalism ?
(i) The Europeans used the East dialectically to describe their self-image as irrational
and primitive.
(ii) The Oriental people used the West dialectically to define their self-image as
irrational and primitive.
(iii) The Europeans used the East oppositionally to define their self-image as rational
and modern.
(iv) The Oriental people used the West oppositionally to define their self-image as
rational and modern.
(A) (iii)
(B) (iv)
(C) (i) and (iv)
(D) (ii) and (iii)
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12. Assertion (AST) : Literary and historical periodization often has nothing to do with the
lifetime of writers. Thus we see two writers born in the same year
belonging to two separate periods.
Reasoning/ (R) : Thomas Carlyle and John Keats were born in 1795. In standard literary
Example histories, Keats is a Romantic and Carlyle, a Victorian.
(A) (AST) and (R) are correct
(B) (AST) is correct; (R) is incorrect
(C) (AST) and (R) are incorrect
(D) (R) does not follow from (AST)
13. Everyman is...
(A) a medieval play based on an episode from the Bible
(B) a medieval morality play
(C) a Tudor interlude
(D) a miracle play
14. Which of the following sets would you call the poets of the Movement ?
(A) Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, John Wain
(B) W.H. Auden, Cecil Day Lewis, Stephen Spender
(C) T.S. Eliot, Richard Aldington, Ezra Pound
(D) Alan Brownjohn, C.H. Sisson, Anthony Thwaite
15. Doris Lessings interest in __________ is widely recognized :
(A) Hinduism (B) Sufism (C) Zen (D) Judaism
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16. Periphrasis, which is a roundabout way of speech/writing, is also known as...
(A) synecdoche
(B) allusion
(C) understatement
(D) circumlocution
17. Arrange the following in chronological order...
(i) The death of Shakespeare
(ii) Accession of James I to the English throne
(iii) Caxton and the printing press
(iv) The Norman Conquest of England
(A) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(B) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
(C) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(D) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
18. The Muse of History is a classic postcolonial essay by :
(A) Ngugi wa Thiongo
(B) Chinua Achebe
(C) Wilson Harris
(D) Derek Walcott
19. Do I contradict myself ?
Very well then, I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
The above lines are from...
(A) Walt Whitman
(B) Edgar Allan Poe
(C) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(D) John Greenleaf Whittier
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20. Verses on the Death of Dr Swift was written by...
(A) Jonathan Swift
(B) Alexander Pope
(C) Samuel Johnson
(D) James Boswell
21. Match the following elegies with the persons for whom they were written :
(i) Lycidas (ii) Arthur Hugh Clough (iii) Adonais
(iv) A.H. Hallam (v) In Memoriam (vi) Edward King
(vii) Thyrsis (viii) Keats
(A) (i) - (vi); (iii) - (iv); (vii) - (ii); (v) - (vi)
(B) (iii) - (viii); (i) - (iv); (iii) - (ii); (v) - (ii)
(C) (i) - (vi); (iii) - (viii); (v) - (iv); (vii) - (ii)
(D) (v) - (vi); (i) - (viii); (iii) - (ii); (vii) - (iv)
22. Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison is a series of reflections on :
(A) Jazz music
(B) Disability sports
(C) Whiteness and the literary imagination
(D) Black American folklore
23. Hes not the brightest man in the world is an example of :
(A) Chiasmus (B) Hyperbole
(C) Litotes (D) Simile
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24. The term horizon of expectations is associated with...
(A) Wolfgang Iser (B) Stanley Fish
(C) Harold Bloom (D) H.R. Jauss
25. The following writers have something in common :
Mary Seacole J.A. Froude
Mary Kingsley Anthony Trollope
What is it ?
(i) They are all Victorians
(ii) They are all writers of childrens fiction
(iii) They are all members of one literary guild
(iv) They are all travel writers
(A) (i) and (ii) (B) (iii) and (iv)
(C) (ii) and (iv) (D) (i) and (iv)
26. The immediate source of Christopher Marlowes Doctor Faustus is...
(A) A French narrative (B) A Dutch narrative
(C) A German narrative (D) None of the above
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27. Who among the following were associated with the Irish Dramatic Movement ?
(A) Lady Gregory, W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge
(B) Jonathan Swift, R.B. Sheridan, G.B. Shaw
(C) W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, G.B. Shaw
(D) W.B. Yeats, Patrick J. Kavanagh, Seamus Heaney
28. The term diaspora was originally applied to the following ethnic group :
(A) Jews (B) Muslims (C) Hindus (D) French Canadians
29. Who among the following is NOT a University Wit ?
(A) Christopher Marlowe (B) George Peele
(C) Robert Greene (D) Ben Jonson
30. When a person has a wooden leg, we are apt to say, He has a wooden leg. Now this
wooden leg is...
(i) literal
(ii) metaphorical
(iii) ambiguous
(iv) neither literal nor metaphorical
(A) (i) and (ii) are correct
(B) (i) is correct
(C) (ii) is correct
(D) (iii) and (iv) are correct
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31. Prosody studies :
(A) Line endings (B) Meanings of words
(C) Patterns of prose (D) Metrics
32. Which of the following is a major Jacobean play ?
(A) Everyman
(B) Gorboduc
(C) Romeo and Juliet
(D) The Duchess of Malfi
33. Understanding Poetry used to be a classic textbook that encapsulates the principles
of ...
(A) New Historicism (B) New Aristotelianism
(C) New Criticism (D) The New Left
34. What century is variously called The Age of Enlightenment, the Age of Sensibility. The
Augustan Age and The Age of Prose and Reason ?
(A) sixteenth century (B) seventeenth century
(C) eighteenth century (D) nineteenth century
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35. What is common to the following poems ?
Wordsworths The Recluse
Shelleys The Triumph of Life
Byrons Don Juan
Keats Hyperion
(A) They are all elegies
(B) They are all unfinished poems
(C) They are all divided into cantos
(D) They are women-centred poems
36. Who among the following called the novel the bright book of life ?
(A) D.H. Lawrence
(B) James Joyce
(C) Virginia Woolf
(D) Aldous Huxley
37. Ripeness is all is a line from...
(A) Hamlet (B) King Lear (C) Othello (D) Macbeth
38. U.R. Ananthamurthys Samskara was translated by...
(A) Himself
(B) Girish Karnad
(C) H.S. Shivaprakash
(D) A.K. Ramanujan
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39. Abel Whittle is a character in :
(A) The Return of the Native
(B) The Mayor of Casterbridge
(C) Far from the Madding Crowd
(D) Tess of the DUrbervilles
40. In which eclogue of The Shepheardes Calender does Spenser praise Queen Elizabeth I ?
(A) January (B) April (C) August (D) November
41. Which of the following is NOT the opening of the well-known Romantic poem ?
(A) My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/My sense
(B) Hail to thee, blithe spirit !
(C) Margaret, are you grieving/Over Goldengrove unleaving ?
(D) The world is too much with us
42. Politics and the English Language is an essay by :
(A) F.R. Leavis
(B) Terry Eagleton
(C) George Orwell
(D) Raymond Williams
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43. The mind-forged manacles is phrase from :
(A) London (B) Eternity
(C) A Poison Tree (D) I Asked a Thief
44. He is not fully recognized at home; he is not recognized at all abroad. Yet I firmly
believe that the poetical performance of __________ is, after that of Shakespeare and
Milton, undoubtedly most considerable in our language.
To whom does Matthew Arnold refer in the above statement ?
(A) Edmund Spenser
(B) John Keats
(C) William Wordsworth
(D) S.T. Coleridge
45. The Globe Theatre opened in :
(A) 1585 (B) 1593 (C) 1599 (D) 1603
Read the following passage carefully, and select the right answers from the alternatives
given below in the questions 46 to 50 :
We need to begin by casting doubt on the legitimacy of the notion of literature. The
mere fact that the word exists, or that an academic institution has been built around it, does
not mean that the thing itself is self-evident.
Reasonsperfectly empirical ones, to begin with are not hard to find. The full history
of the word literature and its equivalents in all languages and all eras has yet to be written,
but even a perfunctory look at the question makes it clear that the term has not been around
for ever. In the European languages, the word literature in its current sense is quite recent : it
dates back just barely to the nineteenth century. Might we be dealing with a historical
phenomenon rather than an eternal one ? Moreover, many languages (many African
languages, for example) have no generic term covering all literary productions. To these
initial observations we may add the fragmentation characteristic of literature today. Who
dares specify what is literature and what is not, given the irreducible variety of the writing
that tends to be attached to it, from vastly different perspectives ?
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The argument is not conclusive : a notion may legitimately exist even if there is no
specific term in the lexicon for it. But we have been led to cast the first shadow of doubt over
the naturalness of literature. A theoretical examination of the problem proves no more
reassuring. Where do we come by the conviction that there is indeed such a thing as
literature ? From experience. We study literary works in school, then in college; we find the
literary type of book in specialized stores; we are in the habit of referring to literary authors
in everyday conversation. An entity called literature functions at the level of intersubjective
and social relations; this much seems beyond question. Fine. But what have we proved ?
That in the broader system of a given society or culture, an identifiable element exists that is
known by the label literature. Have we thereby demonstrated that all the particular products
that take on the function of literature possess common characteristics, which we can identify
with legitimacy ? Not at all.
46. This passage casts doubt on :
(A) the assumption called literature.
(B) the idea of literature.
(C) the institution of literature.
(D) the notion of literature.
47. Literature is unsustainable because :...
(A) we are unclear as to what it means.
(B) we are unsure as to its message.
(C) we are not persuaded that the claims made for it are allowable and acceptable.
(D) we cannot prove that its definitions are the right and the only possible ones.
48. How does the writer argue that the existence of literature is hardly self-evident ?
(i) by citing reasons for its non-existence.
(ii) by citing reasons for interrogating its legitimacy.
(iii) by citing reasons and proving by argument that its legitimacy can be interrogated.
(iv) by citing reasons to show that the label does not match the thing we know to be
literature.
(A) (i) (B) (i) and (ii)
(C) (iii) (D) (iii) and (iv)
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49. Might we be dealing with a historical phenomenon rather than an eternal one ?
What makes this a reasonable question to consider in this context ?
(A) A historical phenomenon lends itself to better empirical verification than an
eternal one.
(B) A historical phenomenon has more legitimacy than an eternal one.
(C) A historical phenomenon can be debated and possibly settled while an eternal
one must be taken on trust or not at all.
(D) A historical phenomenon is well above disputation while an eternal one is not.
50. What does the fragmentation characteristic of literature today suggest to the writer ?
(A) the fragmentation of modern consciousness.
(B) the divided perceptions of literature by its readers.
(C) the lack of specificity of literature.
(D) the blur that frustrates further investigation into this concept.
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